discuss: Re: Suggestion for i18n Coordinator role
Subject:
Re: Suggestion for i18n Coordinator role
From:
Edward Cherlin ####@####.####
Date:
20 Jun 2005 07:00:43 -0000
Message-Id: <200506200002.13746.edward.cherlin@etssg.com>
On Saturday 18 June 2005 23:32, David Lawyer wrote:
> > > The i18n coordinator has the opportunity to interact with
> > > members of the Linux community throughout the world.
> >
> > and provide essential tools for fighting poverty and
> > creating a better society. Among other benefits to the world
> > at large and to specific language communities.
>
> Are you kidding? If we were to bring all people out of
> poverty, the world's natural resources would be depleted much
> faster thereby making poverty even worse in the future.
Off-topic for this list, incorrect, and a reprehensible point of
view. If you wish to discuss it with me further, do so off-list.
> We do
> need to reduce world population. But LDP isn't the
> organization to propose this.
Access to information, particularly health information, by women
and children, is the fastest known method of bringing the birth
rate down. I suppose I shall have to propose a Linux Population
Control HOWTO.
--
Edward Cherlin, Simputer Evangelist
Encore Technologies (S) Pte. Ltd.
The Village Information Society
http://cherlin.blogspot.com
